Electric Light Orchestra - Long Black Road

      [Verse 1]
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They used to tell me boy you ain't goin' nowhere
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With your cheap guitar and your big long hair
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You gotta realize all your responsibilities
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You gotta get out to work and face reality

[Chorus]
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You gotta get up in the morning take your heavy load
        A
And you gotta keep goin' down the long black road

[Verse 2]
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So I drifted for a while down the road to ruin
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I couldn't find my way I didn't know what I was doin'
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I saw a lot of people coming back the other way
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So I kept on goin' when I heard them say

[Chorus]
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"you gotta get up in the morning take your heavy load
        A
And you gotta keep goin' down the long black road"

[Verse 3]
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I made a lot of money I was makin' quite a mess
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But they all told me money wouldn't bring me happiness
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"you gotta work like a man in a real man's life
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You're gonna have to take all the trouble and strife"

[Chorus]
          D
You gotta get up in the morning take your heavy load
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And you gotta keep goin' down the long black road
          D
You gotta get up in the morning take your heavy load
        A                                    E
And you gotta keep goin' down the long black road
          D
You gotta get up in the morning take your heavy load
        A                                    E
And you gotta keep goin' down the long black road